This is needed, good thinking... One suggestion, besides remote hands it would be helpful to list contractors willing to undertake cabling (not sure if theres any other specialisations you might wish to include also). I have paying large amounts for simple cabling requirements! Steve On Sun, 13 Apr 2003, k. scott bethke wrote:
That's funny; you know I was just telling someone about this Friday.. One thing I notice about the colo/ibx/peering buildings is there is always someone there.. Granted they are working on their own stuff but if there was some way collectively if we could all show up on a website when we are "in working" it would be a great resource of people to ask at least. I'd be happy to help if I was on site when someone needed something. I bet we could get some sort of co-op from the datacenters themselves too (using in-house badge/bioscan/etc) to allow the registered members info of in-time to be passed to a website.
Combine that with a list of people in each area to contact willing to come in and do stuff no matter where they are or what they are doing and you may have 90% of your solution. I don't think we are talking about a free service here either. I bet lots of people would be willing to help if they were in the area and were going to get some booty cash.
-Scotty
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Day" <toasty@dragondata.com> To: "James Deibele" <jamesd@scn.rain.com>; <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2003 7:31 PM Subject: Re: Remote hands ANYWHERE?
At 03:52 PM 4/13/2003, you wrote:
We would also have need for occasional non-emergency upgrades and additions. The reason we'd like a company is that we don't want someone on vacation at exactly the time we need those hands on our boxes.
With the amount of internet equipment scattered around the US (and the world) it seems like there's a business here for somebody. Just not us.
This sort of thing has occurred to me several times. I'm available here in Chicago and would be happy to lend a hand when needed, but we've got some equipment scattered here too and I could use some help when I'm not available at home as well.
Any thoughts/comments about some kind of web based
site for people/companies willing to work as remote hands, what city/cities they're available in, hours of availability and the such. Companies such as you can use it to find long term arrangements such as this, or even just use it as a reference when you have a router die at 3am half way across
clearinghouse/matchmaker the
planet and you can't reach your employee there and need to find someone NOW?
I'd be willing to whip up something like this and host it. The only thing holding me back is the uncertainty that something like this would actually be used. I think it'd be a great tool for companies to find people in a pinch, and great for network engineers to get the occasional bit of work.
If any of you would like to let me know (off list) what your thoughts are on this, features or suggestions, and I'll summarize later.